The VNU Exhibitions Asia and the CAPIAC reached a strategic cooperation

From October 24 to 25, 2018, the 2nd World Farm Animal Welfare Conference was held in Beijing. The conference was co-sponsored by the FAO and the CAPIAC, the ICCAW, Wan Yao Yuanda International Exhibition (Beijing) Co., Ltd., and more than 500 people from the world's leading supply chain procurement group representatives attended the meeting. At the meeting, representatives of the participating parties signed the "World Farm Animal Welfare - Beijing Consensus". The conference is divided into a comprehensive main forum and animal welfare pigs, poultry, cattle and sheep, hummers, and reduction and resistance sub-forums. The sub-forums are organized by international associations such as the RSPCA, the CIWF, the US National Pork Board, the US Meat Export, the Donkey Sanctuary, the World Horse Welfare Association, and so on. The selection of this conference in China is of great significance. It shows that China, as a major country in the production and consumption of livestock and poultry products in the world, has improved its farm animal welfare level and has been recognized by the international community.

At the event, the VNU Exhibitions Asia and the CAPIAC reached a strategic cooperation, which will integrate resources and complement with each other to jointly promote the development of China's agricultural cooperation. The two sides agreed to hold the Asia Agro-food Expo 2019 and the 3rd World Farm Animal Welfare Conference in Qingdao World Expo City from September 19th to 21st next year, together with VIV Qingdao 2019, to create an internationally influential Asian agricultural flagship exhibition.

The first AAFEX will be held in Qingdao World Expo City from September 19th to 21st, 2019. It will set up four exhibition sections of animal husbandry, planting, agricultural products, agricultural product processing and logistics. The scale of the exhibition is expected to reach 100,000 square meters, and participating companies will be 2,000, the number of visitors will reach 100,000. Focusing on “food safety”, the Expo will focus on the planning of exhibitions in the major sectors of agriculture and the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, highlighting the professional content of raw materials, technology, equipment, types, brands and services, and building innovative exhibitions and industrial exchanges in Asia's largest agri-food industry. And the business interactive platform, and strive to use three to five years to build Asia's most important "agricultural food industry chain international platform." At the same time, the VIV Qingdao 2019 will be held to open the “One Year Show” era in China together with global industry leaders.

On the evening of the conference, the second World Farm Animal Welfare Conference-VNU Night was sponsored by the VNU Exhibitions Asia, and Ms. Lu Hong, Vice President of the VNU Exhibitions Asia, attended and delivered a speech, she said. "VNU is a professional, international and well-known exhibition enterprise dedicated to animal husbandry, agriculture and food. Providing exchanges and international cooperation platforms and opportunities for the industry has always been our goal and the direction of our efforts. We are deeply honored to be convened and participate in the World Farm Animal Welfare Conference. We will also take responsibility for promoting the development of farm animal welfare.” The dinner was star-studded, with more than 300 people coming from the Leaders of internal and external agricultural institutions, famous university experts and scholars, and industry leaders. They gathered together to discuss the way of agricultural development. the VNU Exhibitions Asia was also awarded the “2018 Corporate Social Responsibility Public Welfare Model” by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Representative Office in China, the World Farm Animal Welfare Conference and the China Agricultural International Cooperation Promotion Association.